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On August 15 2013 19:20 NHY wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2013 18:58 graan wrote:On August 15 2013 17:29 Intricacy wrote: Just going to reiterate here again for those who might not have read my previous comment. When we were invited, there was no mention of any offline portion. None. You can read our invitation email, the rules, etc., not one word said a thing about an offline finals. If they had said "oh and we will have an offline final", I'd have asked for info about compensation. However, since it was added after the fact, I assumed no organizer would spring an offline finals on teams that had already accepted an invitation unless they were the ones paying for the flights. It says in the first mail you quoted, The team league will start at around ~15. march(not fix yet!) and culminate in fantastic finals at the TakeTV studio. That could mean anything from "live from venue" to "filmed broadcast from replays." Oh cmon man, read the line again, it's pretty clear.
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Intricacy, maybe you feel so much hate, since the amount of perceived hate is much higher than the actual hate. Most people supported your decision. I don't get why you make such a drama over some people not agreeing with you.
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On August 15 2013 19:12 Stijn wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2013 18:46 Penev wrote:lol @ the polite, sweet but also slightly sexist "mrs bains" in the thread ...sexist? I felt weird saying "Intricacy" since that's not how she's usually referred to as far as I've seen, and "Genna" sounded way too intimate. I'd never refer to TotalBiscuit as "John" either, but he's usually called by his nickname. Leaves "Mrs Bain", nothing sexist about that On another note, pretty much all of Take's broadcasts are live from the TakeTV studios, even when he's just casting an online tournament or replays, so that e-mail didn't necessarily say much. Haha, I'm sorry; It felt more polite and sweet than anything else. Don't understand why you'd feel weird saying Intricacy though but whatever.
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On August 15 2013 19:34 grs wrote: Intricacy, maybe you feel so much hate, since the amount of perceived hate is much higher than the actual hate. Most people supported your decision. I don't get why you make such a drama over some people not agreeing with you.
She's married to Total Biscuit, inventing drama that doesn't exist in order to get mad and whine and cry about it on the internet is his raison d'etre, no surprise it's rubbing off.
User was temp banned for this post.
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On August 15 2013 17:29 Intricacy wrote: Just going to reiterate here again for those who might not have read my previous comment. When we were invited, there was no mention of any offline portion. None. You can read our invitation email, the rules, etc., not one word said a thing about an offline finals. If they had said "oh and we will have an offline final", I'd have asked for info about compensation. However, since it was added after the fact, I assumed no organizer would spring an offline finals on teams that had already accepted an invitation unless they were the ones paying for the flights.
but in the very first mail:
TaKeTV will start a european Teamleague. The team league will start at around ~15. march(not fix yet!) and culminate in fantastic finals at the TakeTV studio.
So there clearly is some blame on your part. Not the big part maybe but you act so very selfrightous.... atleast thats how it comes across to me.
Totally unrelated:
That Crank is injured may be a good reason to withdraw, but it should not have anything to do with the financial part. Also the commitment to other tournements as a reason not to compete in this one disturbes me. I can totally understand your decision and it is probably the correct one businesswise, but the reasoning feels somewhat screwed for me. Why not just say, there was misscommunication (on both sides?) and we have other reasons why this is not our first priority - and be over with it? A replacement is found, Take seems to be okay with it, good enough for me. Not a proud day but an okay day.
edit: apparently someone was faster, sorry for the more or less double post.
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I won't point my patchfork anywhere, but the fact remains that 8/9 teams knew about the travel cost. One missed mail by TakeTV should not be enough to not know about it at all. Also I don't think assuming they would pay the full travel cost is reasonable just because IPL did it. But yeah it's just a bad situation for everyone with no one alone being at fault. No pitchfork here, but if I had to choose it would be a . Now I wish Axiom the best of luck at all the other events, hope that Axiom keeps becoming a financially more stable business and to see them again in ATC S2!
Thanks for that awesome blog post by the way Genna, very well written and makes things easy to understand. Also seems unbiased.
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Thanks for the blog post explanation, Intricacy. Cleared up a lot. All the best to you and your team.
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I don't even know why this was written in the first place, I think 99% of people either a) just don't care and had already forgotten about it (this post reminded me that this even happened, I can't be the only one) or b) support the decision and are wondering what the big deal is.
This just draws more negative attention to Axiom than was present in the first place and makes Axiom management look like they aren't confident in their decisions. You made the decision, you have your reasons, you know they're legit, one announcement and an apology backed up by Take should have been the end of it. Don't pander to the whiny sods who are only capable of findings negatives in anything.
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Contracts for these leagues should have include the following:
Prize: Date: Format: Offline or Online: If Offline, what expenses are paid if anything:
IMO it's just too expensive for offline team leagues unless the team league is in a central location where all teams are capable of traveling through the use of public transportation (bus/subways/taxi/etc)...basically like Proleague and GSTL
I do side more with Axiom though b/c I do agree with their assumptions and actions. And it was a communication issue more on the side of TakeTV as the contract seemed to leave out some crucial information but we are humans and mistakes happen. If you leave out information like there being an offline event, one can only assume that you are not having one (offline event).
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On August 15 2013 09:11 Junho.C wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2013 09:10 Conti wrote: To get some perspective: What does a flight cost from Korea to EU, on average? I think around $1800?
Few pages late already I'm sure, but this sounds over the top. From Sweden to Korea you can fly for $600 at least so that sounds extreme to me
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Wow, i'm impressed with the transparency in explaining that, especially when we see how MLG decided to handle "SC2 situation". Communication issues happen, it sucks but its nothing to cry about to much. Sad too not see Axiom in ATC finals, but i feel like other teams could learn a lot from Axiom how to contact with community.
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While I agree that in the first email it should be clear that the finals take place offline and I dare to say Genna should have asked about travel expenses, she is right that its not of her business to gather information about the league afterwards. While its only a small email that seemingly went missing, its crucial information for her.
While we can read forums all day everyday, she has to run a team and I guess she also got a private life, so while its a SMALL mistake on the part of TaKeTV it made the situation rather dull. I cannot understand why Genna accepted the invite assuming it will all be online when it states 'at the studio' but as mentioned, the mail she didn't receive was the crucial point here.
I am not blaming anyone, it simply happend and mistakes do happen in every mistake. She is also right about that really the fans and other players are robbed. I think Axiom can take that 'hit' very well and I feel she is doing reasonable business decision here, but its overall a very unfortunate situation overall.
I was looking forward to see and cast Axiom at the studio especially Ryung who seemed to be on fire lately, shame, my loss. Hope they can do well in season 2
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On August 15 2013 20:55 Vond wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2013 09:11 Junho.C wrote:On August 15 2013 09:10 Conti wrote: To get some perspective: What does a flight cost from Korea to EU, on average? I think around $1800? Few pages late already I'm sure, but this sounds over the top. From Sweden to Korea you can fly for $600 at least so that sounds extreme to me
If you can tolerate layovers you can go between Germany and Korea round trip for about 600$, 1000$ for late booking. Direct flights should be about 50% more (up to two weeks prior, afterwards it gets crazy but they had two weeks). Layovers can take up to 12h though so that sucks a little.
On that matter, simply assuming that an event will shell out 5.000+$ for travel for a single team (flights, accomodation, transportation etc.) seems highly optimistic...and then still warrants asking about it prior to signing anything.
Also, can anybody explain to me why Axiom didn't have a joker? They were already down to 5 players and later 4 during the season, having a joker would potentially have lessened the burden of getting 4 players over there and allowed them to deal with injuries.
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Seems like mistakes were made on both ends. A bit haphazard in the planning and execution of the event by its staff, as well as a bit of absent-mindedness/negligence from Axiom.
Some people may find fault for one of the parties, but the truth is, one is a bunch of people supporting eSports through event management, and another is through team management. Hopefully everyone involved learns from this incident and we can move forward into positive and prosperous times.
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On August 15 2013 20:13 Musicus wrote:I won't point my patchfork anywhere, but the fact remains that 8/9 teams knew about the travel cost. One missed mail by TakeTV should not be enough to not know about it at all. Also I don't think assuming they would pay the full travel cost is reasonable just because IPL did it. But yeah it's just a bad situation for everyone with no one alone being at fault. No pitchfork here, but if I had to choose it would be a . Now I wish Axiom the best of luck at all the other events, hope that Axiom keeps becoming a financially more stable business and to see them again in ATC S2! Thanks for that awesome blog post by the way Genna, very well written and makes things easy to understand. Also seems unbiased. That's one of the best typo's I've ever seen; Patchfork FTW! XD
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While it sucks that things had to go this way, I think every party involved reacted as best as they could have after realizing there was information that was left out. Sorry for Axiom, hope you guys are back for the next ATC
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Junho.C has been on Axiom's case in every SC2 related forum. Dear lord guy move on, wow.
All of this blows, end of story. I will say however, as a TB/Axiom fan, John you gotta stay out of these threads. Every time Genna makes a post it's well written, on point and professional and then the moment someone's negative you come in and just slam on the unprofessional, name calling schtick. While this is probably fine for the Total Biscuit brand it's killing the Axiom brand (for me at least). My .02, take it or leave it.
Best of luck to you both in the future, please send my regards to Crank I hope he gets well soon.
-Z
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It's unfortunate, It's shitty, It happens. No need to get the pitchforks out.
(Sundance, MLG, please take note on how you communicate to the SC2 community, a great example is provided here).
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Shouldn't there be contracts signed when signing up for the league that should include all that information?
i never took part in any esports competition with a larger prize pool, so i dont know how things are run, but especially if there is a substantial amount of money involved, the whole deal should be written down and signed?
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Maybe I am just too retarded, but it took me a while to find out that this is written by the owner of Axiom - which, arguably, is a fact that gives the topic infinitely much more weight than if it was written by just some random TL user. Yes, it becomes kinda obvious during reading (or pretty creepy if you don't get it - how does that guy get to all these emails?), but I wouldn't probably have read that very far if I didn't know that (again, because I am not interested in a random guy's opinion on the drama).
So, I would suggest making it more obvious who you are, if you are someone relevant.
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